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161. Cotton MS Otho D VIII

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Cotton MS Otho D VIII
Title:
Calendar; Passional (February–March), comprising: Passio Sancti Ignatii; Vita Sancte Brigide Virginis; Passio Sancti Blasii Episcopi; Passio Sancti Triphonis Martyris; Passio Sancte Agathe Virginis et Martyris; Alcuin, Vita Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Haiminus of Saint-Vaast, Miracula Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Baudemundus, Vita Sancti Amandi Traiectensis Episcopi; Vita Sancti Ansberti episcopi; Vita Sancte Austroberte Virginis; Vita Sancte Euphrasie Virginis; Passio Sancti Valentini Martyris; Pa...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains six parts (ff. 2-7; ff. 8-173; ff. 174-233; ff. 234-254; f. 255; ff. 256-269) that were produced at separate times in England. The largest part of the manuscript (ff. 8-173) contains a Passionary or Legendary (featuring the lives of saints for liturgical read...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century - 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

162. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

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Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

163. Cotton MS Tiberius A III

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III
Title:
Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

164. Cotton MS Tiberius A VI

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Cotton MS Tiberius A VI
Title:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text (imperfect); cartulary of Ely Cathedral (imperfect), including the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis; a chronicle of English history between 1042-1346 (imperfect).
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 texts: ff. 1r-35v: the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the late tenth century with additions about the True Cross and a list of archbishops of Canterbury from the late 11th or early 12th century; ff. 36r-120v: an imperfect cartulary of Ely Cathedral, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

165. Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII

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Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
Title:
Two cartularies of Worcester Cathedral Priory (including ‘Hemming’s Cartulary’) and supplementary material, including a homily and an account of Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two cartularies pertaining to Worcester Cathedral Priory, one written in the early eleventh century and the other written in the late eleventh century. The earlier cartulary contains notes possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, archbishop of Worcester-York (d. 1023). The seco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-16th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

166. Cotton MS Tiberius A XIV

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Cotton MS Tiberius A XIV
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an ornate copy of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. The text and decoration has been badly damaged by fire in some places. Decoration: large coloured initials and capitals (ff. 1r, 39r); decorative lines in the margin (ff. 51r-57r, 65r-66v, 109v-111r); rubr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 8th century-1st quarter of 9th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

167. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

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Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
Title:
A letterbook including Alcuin's Epistolae with other letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury and others; a fragment of a Gospel of St John and a charter of Duke William II of Normandy; Junillus Africanus, Instituta regularia divine legis (imperfect); Richard Rolle, Super apocalypsim, Richard Rolle, Super mulierem fortem, Officium de sancto Ricardo heremita and Vita et miracula sancti Ricardi heremite
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains four originally separate items, now bound together. Contents: ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and letters by various authors in the late 10th century, copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 11th century. f. 174r: A fragment of the Gospel of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

168. Cotton MS Tiberius B II

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Cotton MS Tiberius B II
Title:
Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Edmundi; Hermann the Archdeacon, Miracula Sancti Edmundi; Survey of the manors of the bishop of Ely; Miscellaneous documents
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of two different parts, written at different time. Both parts were bound together in the early modern period. The first part was written in the late 11th century-early 12th century (after 1097) and contains the Passion of St Edmund by Abbo of Fleury and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

169. Cotton MS Tiberius B III

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Cotton MS Tiberius B III
Title:
Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle; Benedictional; sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges; Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four sections that were separately produced at different periods of time. The first section (ff. 2-11), containing a Calendar of Saints, computistical tables, and lunar and solar tables, was produced at Canterbury in the 1st quarter of the 13th century, but cer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

170. Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/1

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Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/1
Title:
Liber Pontificalis (Pontifical of Glasgow)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was formerly bound together with the Coronation Book of Charles V of France, numbered ff. 35-80, now Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2. The folio numbering of this part (ff. 3-34, 81-197) is that of the composite volume, bound together by Cotton in the 17th century as Cotton MS Tiberiu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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